Month: April 2024

“Just four years ago I was a very popular and successful President,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Criminal Court.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that it bodes well for Ukraine aid that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) discussed the matter with former President Trump, noting the former president still has “tremendous influence” in shaping the party’s policy positions.In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked…
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The opening of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial on Monday will put to the test a defense strategy his lawyers have been honing for a year — a confrontational gambit that has angered the judge and could cost the presidential candidate dearly when it comes to a verdict.Fight for every scrap of evidence. Push for…
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday that last week’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling banning nearly all abortions in the state is a result of actions former President Trump took while in office.“Let me start by saying this has been a disaster for women in Arizona. They’ve lost a fundamental right to abortion, and it’s all…
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Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter“There is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the future of our nation,” the statement reads. By Zoe G Phillips The five leading broadcast and cable news networks joined…
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Election 2024: Sununu says he will still support Trump even though he believes he ‘contributed’ to an insurrection.  The New York Timessource

Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., said women will not be “conned” by former President Donald Trump, who last week publicly clarified his stance on abortion and said he believes states should decide their own restrictions on the procedure.“We know that he is the one who is responsible for what’s going on in Arizona and all over…
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‘Muttering under his breath, disgusted looks, a performance for the jury,’ former Trump Press Secretary on expectations for criminal trial  MSNBCsource

A kerfuffle in Grand Rapids, Mich., in recent days revealed a grim truth about America’s institutions in these troubled times: Too many of them lack the courage to stand up to the threat to democracy that is Donald Trump, thereby contributing to the alarming staying power of the once and perhaps future president.We already know…
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A former president facing a criminal trial is a first in US history, and Donald Trump has four coming up. How will the outcomes affect his run for president? What if he has to go to prison? Here’s what you need to know.Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the November 2024 US presidential election, is no…
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FREEHOLD – An all-day argument over money between cohabitants of a recreational vehicle escalated into a sledgehammer attack at a Middletown tire shop last week, with the assailant telling police he hoped the victim was dead.Sarah Martinho, assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, relayed that to a judge Friday in asking that Michael Gonzales be kept in…
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AdvertisementSupported byDonald Trump’s concerns about money may have entered his vice-presidential calculations, along with political considerations and which contenders he likes the look of.By Michael C. BenderReporting from WashingtonAs former President Donald J. Trump sifts through potential running mates, he has peppered some advisers and associates with a direct question: Which Republican could best help…
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Donald Trump’s Trial of the Century  The New Yorkersource

The first criminal trial of any former U.S. president is set to begin Monday, when former President Trump will stand trial for his role in a hush money deal with an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Trump for months has sought to push back the start of his first criminal trial, launching…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) underlined the severity of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial, saying he believes that Americans will really pay attention to court proceedings, and it could impact their vote. Raskin’s comments come after Trump’s attorneys have downplayed the trial. Attorney Will Scharf said Sunday that it is merely a “six-week-long media…
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Donald Trump has lost another lawyer—and the former president’s loss could be special counsel Jack Smith’s massive gain.Evan Corcoran left the Trump legal team some time in the last few months, CNN reported late Thursday. He was the last of Trump’s attorneys to have handled one of the former president’s federal cases from the beginning,…
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ABC News and other major TV networks sent a letter to the candidates Sunday.ABC News is among a unified grouping of the five chief broadcast and cable news networks, along with major wire, print and radio organizations, that have penned an open letter asking presidential candidates to publicly commit to taking part in televised debates…
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A porn star, a president and a publisher named Pecker: The key potential witnesses at Trump’s criminal trial  POLITICOsource

Hillary Clinton’s running mate experienced defeat by Trump. His new book documents his attempt to understand AmericaJack Kemp. Joe Lieberman. John Edwards. Sarah Palin. Paul Ryan. All ran for vice-president of the United States and fell short. All had to confront the question: what next? The same fate befell Tim Kaine, whose turn as running…
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The shakiest case against Donald Trump will be the first to go to trial.A combination of clever lawyering on Trump’s behalf (managing to delay the federal election interference trial) and uncanny good luck (drawing Trump appointee Judge Aileen M. Cannon to oversee the classified documents case in Florida) cleared the field for New York District…
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‘Delusional’: Bolton blasts Trump for saying Iranian attacks wouldn’t have happened on his watch  POLITICOsource

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA dozen national news organizations are calling on the presumptive presidential nominees to commit to debates ahead of the November election.In a joint statement Sunday, the news outlets pressed the candidates, without naming President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump, to pledge their…
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Former President Donald Trump already appears to have a good idea of who might be on his economic team if he wins this November.The ongoing semipublic floating of candidates from the former president is new in that it is starting much earlier than in elections past.What's familiar is that Donald Trump is once again embracing…
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Two down, at least four to go.On the eve of his first criminal trial, set to begin Monday in New York, former President Donald Trump continues to navigate a half-dozen civil and criminal cases as he campaigns to return to the White House. He appears in court so often that courthouses have become de facto…
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Help keep Salon independentDonald Trump's attorneys have vaulted three efforts this week aimed at pushing back the former president's trial on charges alleging he covered up a sex scandal ahead of the 2016 election. After two failures, the most recent bid — a last-minute civil action against presiding Judge Juan Merchan filed Wednesday— promptly followed…
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